The Calder Hall Magnox reactor near Sellafield fired the UK's first commercial nuclear power station in 1956, and launched an early UK lead in global nuclear developments. By 1960 six commercial reactors were operating, and Magnox technology had been exported to Italy and Japan. The UK Magnox building programme was complete in 1971 with eleven stations, each producing between 245 MW and 840 MW. Author(s):

The first principle in planning is: be clear about your own direction and purpose – in other words, your values and why you are doing anything. You can use the technique of asking why? And then why? of the answer. And then why? of the answer to that. Keep repeating this process until you get back to your underlying values to create an objectives tree or network to help you define the direction in which you wish to go and the steps necessary to get there.

INN Placement Website This artefact outlines the creation of a new website for Innovation North students holding details of all work placements (short, long term, voluntary, paid).The Institute for Enterprise funded the project and the money helped pay a student to maintain the website for a yearAuthor(s): Creator not set

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Implications of resource management in La Parguera, Puerto Rico (The) A recent rezoning of La Parguera, southwest Puerto Rico, as a tourist zone has resulted in an imbalance between development and appropriate resource management. Development associated with tourism is destroying the sub-tropical dry forest and adding pressure on the marine resources through increased boat traffic and marine structures. Declining water quality and benthic community health are two of the impacts seen in La Parguera associated with these land use changes. This study is three-fold. FAuthor(s): Hertler, Heidi

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Drug Warriors Claim Colorado Going to Pot Drug warriors rely on bad and manipulated data to make the claim that respecting private property rights in Colorado is “terrible public policy,” writes Mark Thornton.
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Computer History Museum, Pop-Up Pi Day 2013 Kano is designing a computer kit for everyone, so they took it to the Computer History Museum for some perspective.
CHM CEO John Hollar with amazing volunteers and 50 young people -- some beginners, some Python hackers -- joined them.
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This video shows the value of friendship and of being considerate of others. The main feature stars Larry the Cucumber as Sheerluck Holmes and his sidekick Bob the Tomato as Watson; together they are London's crack crime-solving team. But Sheerluck starts to take credit for all the duo's achievements, leaving Watson to stew in his own juiAuthor(s): No creator set

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De Carle Lecture 2014: Doctoring the State: Plato, Hobbes, Humboldt, Hegel, Virchow Professor Haun Saussy, from the University of Chicago and a leading scholar of Chinese and comparative literature, delivers the second lecture in the 2014 De Carle Lecture series. Western political philosophy, at its beginning (Plato's Republic), introduces an analogy between medical treatment and political reform that, like all metaphors, has consequences on both the supposedly different domains that it incorporates. As long as the metaphor is viewed as a mere analogy, however, the practical rAuthor(s): No creator set

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11.487 Urban Public Finance in Developing Countries (MIT) This readings-based course analyzes the structure and operation of government systems in developing countries, with particular emphasis on regional and local governments. Major topics include: the role of decentralization in national economic reform programs, the potential impact of decentralized governments on local economic development, determination of optimal arrangements for sharing fiscal responsibilities among levels of government, evaluation of local revenue and expenditure decisions, anAuthor(s): Kim, Annette M.

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Last month, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch ran an article focusing on Missouri governor Jay Nixon's "Made in Missouri" jobs initiative. To promote this new initiative, Missouri's Department of Economic Development was planning to give away 6,000

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Leading Rockwell Collins' Lean Transformation (w/Spanish subtitles), Part 3 (Original, english-only version located here: http://techtv.mit.edu/videos/16101-leading-rockwell-collins-lean-transformation)
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Description: "When we began our Lean journey," recounts Clayton Jones, "it was mostly an act of faith, with doubters and cynics in every corner." Now, after 11 years engaged in a top-to-bottom streamlining process, Jones declares, "There is no single initiative I've pioneered and pusheAuthor(s): No creator set

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The Fourth Revolution: the global race to reinvent the state [Audio] Speaker(s): John Micklethwait, Adrian Wooldridge | Is Britain falling behind in the global race to reinvent the state? Britain has led previous attempts to reinvent the state, from the Hobbesian security revolution of the 17th century, to the liberal, meritocratic revolution of the 19th century, to the welfare revolution of the early 20th century. We are now embarked on a new revolution, driven by IT, unsustainable debts and the rise of emerging markets. But Britain is much less well placed to lAuthor(s): No creator set